Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Seeing And Believing

Seeing and BelievingbyEdwin Romond

The girls giggledbut the boys laughed right out loudwhen Mrs. Stone raged crimsonholding my eighth grade project:"The Map of New Jersey.""Get up here, boy!"and I had no choicebut to walk the gangplank to her deskwhere my map choked in her fist."What’s this jazz? Huh?The ocean is not green, Bub, it’s blue.Ya’ get it? Blue, blue, blue, blue!"punching my map with each word into my chest.My classmates roared a chorusof "Green ocean! Green ocean!"their voices rising in waves of laughteras I carried the wrinkled and ripped mapback to my seat through their sneers.Soon, all their maps perimetered the roomleaving me adrift in the memory of a Sundaywhen, in the October air,my father and I walked over seashellsand I, only nine,remarked that the ocean looked green.My father, peering out from beneath his cap,said, "Yes, it does" and his fingers swamthrough my hair.

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